Pygmy Hippos in mixed exhibits

Bib Fortuna

Bib Fortuna

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Which Zoos Keep pygmy hippos together with other species, and with which kinds of animals ?

In the USA, I know Brookfield does with diffrent primates,San Diego maybe,in europe Plzen with Angola-Colobus,South Lakes with ?,Aalborg with ?, Arnhem with Blue duikers ? Maybe Doue La Fontaine ?

Second question-which Zoos have underwater viewing for pygmy hippos ? I know Singapore,Berlin,Leipzig,Aalborg and Doue La Fontaine-any more ?
 
In the Netherlands, both in Gaiapark and in Diergaarde Blijdorp there is underwater viewing in the outdoor enclosure, the only Dutch zoo where pygmy hippos are mixed with other species is indeed Burgers Zoo with a breeding pair of blue duiker.
 
lintworm said:
In the Netherlands, both in Gaiapark and in Diergaarde Blijdorp there is underwater viewing in the outdoor enclosure, the only Dutch zoo where pygmy hippos are mixed with other species is indeed Burgers Zoo with a breeding pair of blue duiker.
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Thank you, lintworm. How old is the underwater viewing at Blijdorp ? I can't remember seeing that, but my last visit to Rotterdam was 10 years ago...
 
Halle: marmosets
Jihlava (and others): Egyptian Goose
Zoo de Fuengirola: serval
Bioparc Valencia: Drill, Mona Guenon, Southern Talapoin, Western Sitatunga, Egyptian Goose and African Black Duck.
 
South lakes used to keep them with mandrills, but these have now gone and as far as I recall the hippos now have the enclosure to themselves.
 
Thank you guys !

Servals with pygmy hippo is an interesting combination.

Also Valencia with diffrent primates and Sitaunga. But I think, it is not a ood idea to Keep them together with Mandrills-they might be to aggressive for the hippos-I've seen that at Brookfield-the adult male Mandrill attacked several times the hippo, which finally escaped to the pool. I don't know, if the same combination was succesfull at Halle, but they stopped it several years ago, and maybe South Lakes made the same bad experiences.
 
As for Aalborg, they are not housed with any other species in their outdoor exhibit, but their indoor exhibit is built like a small tropical house with free-flying turacos, Van der Decken's hornbills, and glossy starlings (though the starlings may have been moved to elsewhere in the zoo).
 
Don't the serval and the hippos rotate through the exhibit at Fuengirola? I'm not sure that they're ever actually in there together (although I may very be wrong).
 
sooty mangaby: I clearly recall a series of photos from Fuengirola depicting a pygmy hippo bleaking its teeth torwards a group of juvenile servals-so they might have tried this combination at least in the past.
 
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I suspect that the main reason pigmy hippos are not often mixed, at least with terrestrial animals, is that their habit of spreading dung to mark their territory might make it very unsalubrious for other animals, at least in a limited area. With arboreal primates or birds, which would be less of a threat to the hippos and out of range of any aggression, they might do better. Incidentaly, does anyone know of any mixed exhibits including pigmy hippos and lemurs? Primates from the mainland of Africa would be a better fit with the living species, but the Madagascar Pigmy Hippo was very closely related and only died out within the last thousand years or so, so a combined exhibit would make for an interesting story for the public on Madagascars extinct megafauna.
 
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

From the 80s-90s? to 2006, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in the USA used to keep pygmy hippos with Kirk's dik-dik antelope behind the old elephant exhibit.
 
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